Use Adobe Bridge with Dreamweaver to locate, organize, and browse assets to create print, web, video, and mobile content.

About Adobe Bridge

Dreamweaver
provides seamless integration with Adobe Bridge, the cross-platform
file browser included with Adobe Creative Suite 5
components. Adobe Bridge helps you locate, organize, and
browse the assets you need to create print, web, video, and mobile
content. You can start Adobe Bridge from any Creative
Suitecomponent (except Acrobat 9), and use it to access
both Adobe and non-Adobe asset types.

From Adobe Bridge, you can:

Preview, search,
sort, and process files without opening individual Creative Suite
applications. You can also edit metadata for files and use Adobe Bridge
to place files into your documents, projects, or compositions.

Import and edit photos from a digital camera card, group
related photos into stacks, and open and edit Camera Raw files without
starting Photoshop.

Start Adobe Bridge from
Dreamweaver

You can start Adobe Bridge
from Dreamweaver to view your files before placing them or dragging
them in your page layout.

You can start Adobe Bridge in several
different ways:

Select File > Browse
In Bridge.

Click the Browse In Bridge button
in the Standard toolbar.

Press the Browse In Bridge shortcut
from the keyboard: Control+Alt+O (Windows) or Command+Option+O (Macintosh).

Adobe Bridge opens in File Browser mode, showing
the contents of the last-opened folder in Dreamweaver. If Adobe Bridge
was already open, it becomes the active window.

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Adobe
Bridge is only installed with Dreamweaver CS5 when you install Creative
Suite CS5; it is not included with the standalone version of Dreamweaver CS5.
However, Adobe Bridge was included if you previously installed Dreamweaver CS3
or CS4, so if you still have Adobe Bridge installed from those versions,
Dreamweaver CS5 can access it and use it.

Place files into Dreamweaver from Adobe Bridge

You
can insert files into Dreamweaver pages by inserting them or by
dragging them from Adobe Bridge into your page. The Dreamweaver
document in which you want to insert the file must be open and in
Design view to use this feature.

You can insert most file types into your pages, but Dreamweaver
handles them differently:

If you insert a web‑ready image (JPEG, GIF, or PNG),
Dreamweaver inserts the image files directly into your page and
places a copy in your website’s default images folder.

If you insert a Photoshop PSD file, you need to define its
optimization settings before Dreamweaver can place it in your page.

If you insert a non-image file, such as mp3, PDF, or a file
with an unknown file type, Dreamweaver inserts a link to the source
file.

If you insert an HTML file, Dreamweaver inserts a link to
the source file.

(Windows only) If you have Microsoft Office installed and
you are inserting a Microsoft Word or Excel file, you must specify
if you want to insert the file itself or insert a link to the source
file. If you want to insert the file, you can specify how much of
the file’s formatting you want to keep.

Place an Adobe Bridge
file in your page

In Dreamweaver (Design
view), place the insertion point on your page where you want the
file inserted.

In Adobe Bridge, select the file and choose
File > Place In Dreamweaver.

If the file is not in your site’s root folder, you are
prompted to copy it there.

If you have set Edit > Preferences >
Accessibility to show attributes when inserting images, the Image
Tag Accessibility Attributes dialog box is displayed when you insert
web‑ready images such as JPEG and GIF.

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If your insertion point is in Code view, Adobe Bridge
starts as usual but cannot place the file. You can only place files
in Design view.

Drag a file from Bridge into your
page

In Dreamweaver (Design
view), place the insertion point on your page where you want the
image inserted.

Start Adobe Bridge if it isn't already open.

In Adobe Bridge, select one or more files and
drag them into your Dreamweaver page.

If a file is not in your site’s root folder, you are
prompted to copy it there.

If you have set Edit > Preferences >
Accessibility to show attributes when inserting images, the Image
Tag Accessibility Attributes dialog box is displayed when you insert
web‑safe images such as JPEG and GIF.

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If your insertion point is in Code view, Adobe Bridge
starts as usual but cannot place the file. You can only place files
in Design view.

Start Dreamweaver from Adobe Bridge

Select a file in Adobe Bridge
and do one of the following:

Select File > Open
With > Adobe Dreamweaver.

Right-click (Control-click on Macintosh) and then
choose Open With > Adobe Dreamweaver from the context menu.

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If Dreamweaver is already open, this action makes
the program active. If Dreamweaver is not
open, Adobe Bridge starts it, bypassing the Welcome Screen.